Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
Then they came for the feminists…
With women the world over once again facing the beginnings of neonazi persecution, we should be thinking urgently about organised resistance, says LOUISE RAW
Anti-nazi radio operator Noor Inayaat Khan and Beatty Orwell, who fought Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts as a teenager
Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ, ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY contrast Trump’s warships and F-35 fighters threatening Venezuela with the $20bn bailout for Milei’s collapsed economy, all enabled by a highly ideological IMF
KAY GREEN explains how the Middle East and colonialism were explored at at last weekend’s FiLiA conference
ROS SITWELL reports from Europe’s largest feminist conference – hosted this year in Brighton
Morning Star campaigns manager CALVIN TUCKER gives an update on the drive to raise £95,000 to see the people’s paper keep fighting the good fight against the rich and powerful
KINDER, Kuche, Kirche — not lesser-known Kardashian sisters, but Nazi ideals for women.
Heinrich Himmler reduced these “three Ks (“children, kitchen, church”) even further; women had only to “be beautiful and to bring children into the world,” opined the man with a face reminiscent of a partly baked potato.
The Nazis were never consistent in their responses to the “woman question.” While publicly encouraging only married motherhood, giving women incentives to marry, they also told the SS and German military to impregnate as many “Aryan” women as possible, in or out of wedlock — a policy Himmler personally pursued with his mistresses.
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